Rev. 0. P. Cambridge on neio Species of Araneidea. 63 



differs from them both in colour and armature. The central 

 pair of eyes in the front row are lower down, and thus more 

 removed out of the straight line of the two laterals. The form 

 of the abdomen is a more regular oval. Cephalothorax yellow- 

 brown, marked with darker lines of same colour. Some small, 

 pale, scale-like hairs are disposed in longitudinal lines towards 

 the fore extremity ; cephalic eminence much less elevated than 

 in 8. altifrons. The armature of the cephalothorax consists 

 of short, strong, tuberculate spines. The abdomen is of a bright 

 brown-yellow, thickly studded with small yellowish tuberculate 

 spines, among which are many paler ones, longer and of a 

 larger size j some of them are clubbed at their extremities ; of 

 these some are black, and give a speckled appearance to the 

 surface of the abdomen. Legs similarly armed, but the spines 

 are not quite so strong. Colour of the legs like that of ceplialo- 

 thorax, with in-egular oblique bands of a paler hue, formed by 

 small scale-like hairs ; these are most conspicuous on the tarsi 

 and metatarsi, and the alternate spaces are red-brown. Sexual 

 organs large and conspicuous ; but in the dry specimen their 

 exact form could not be ascertained. 



A single ? in Hope Coll., Oxford, without label, but sup- 

 posed to be from Australia. 



Stejjlianopis lata^ n. sp. 

 ? . Adult? Length 3| lines ; relative length of legs 1, 2, 



Closely allied to S. altifrons, this species differs from it in 

 the tuberculate rugulosities being in general less acutely spi- 

 nous and bristly, also in having a good deal of red-bro^vn in 

 its colouring, as well as in being proportionally shorter and 

 broader — in this last respect, and in the fore extremity of the 

 abdomen being truncate, presenting a more marked Thomisi- 

 form appearance ; the elevation of the caput is also far less 

 high and prominent, and the clypeus less projecting ; the 

 legs are longer and stronger j and the size of the front lateral 

 eyes is proportionally less ; also the front centrals are lower 

 down and more out of the straight line (as in S. clavata) : — 



A single ? of this spider (which may be easily distinguished 

 from either of the foregoing species by the differential charac- 

 ters above given) is in the same collection as those species, 

 and is labelled " Van Diemen's Land." 



